6 JULY 1956, page 28

The Troubled All

Tim CENTRAL BLUE. By Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor. (Cassell, 30s.) THE war and post-war years were no respecters of persons. Who in, say, September, 1938,......

Novelistic Pleiad

THE GERMAN NOVEL : STUDIES. By Roy Pascal. (Manchester University Press, 30s.) EXCEPT for Werther, with its seedy sentiment and brilliant self- pity, and Wilhelm Meister, that......